A detective who closely resembles a murder victim is asked to assume the victim’s identity to investigate her death from the inside.

A retelling of the Mahabharata told from Draupadi (Panchaali)'s point of view: the novel follows her life within royal courts, her relationships with brothers, husbands, and Krishna, and the personal consequences of living in a patriarchal world where public honor and private feeling collide.

This book looks closely at how people behave in major disasters, arguing against the idea that chaos and panic are the default. Using historical episodes and reporting, it shows recurring patterns of spontaneous cooperation, improvisation, and mutual aid that form temporary communities in the wake of catastrophe.

Set on an 18th-century Jamaican sugar plantation, the novel follows Lilith, a young woman born into slavery, as she navigates the violent limits imposed on her body and choices.

A pragmatic private investigator in India is drawn into a case when a household servant disappears; the investigation unfolds through interviews, local social detail, and procedural clue-gathering.

Set in mid-20th-century England, the story focuses on a physician who becomes entwined with a once-grand house and its family as strange occurrences and social decline intensify. The pressure comes from the intersection of a medical, rational viewpoint with uncanny events tied to a deteriorating domestic world.

Sarah Crowe moves from Atlanta to an old rural Rhode Island house and finds an unfinished manuscript left by a former tenant — a parapsychologist fixated on an ancient oak on the property.

A CIA agent who works for a clandestine black-ops unit must navigate secrecy, betrayal, and professional danger as events force him to confront the consequences of undercover work.

A house in England exerts an active, hostile presence while a young twin, Miranda, contends with family loss and an ambiguous relationship to the dwelling. The novel combines ghostly and vampire-inflected elements to stage domestic dread and inheritance as intimate, supernatural pressure.

Set in early sixteenth-century England, the novel follows the rise of a skilled lawyer and fixer inside the royal court, concentrating on his practical work, alliances, and the political currents that elevate him.

Thirteen interrelated stories trace a network of people connected to a record executive and his assistant across several decades. The pieces jump in time and viewpoint, following mostly self-destructive characters whose lives turn in unforeseen directions as they age.

A contemporary novel shaped like a folktale in which a young woman and those around her navigate consequences after a theft and encounters with trickster spirits. The setup focuses on moral complications inside domestic relationships and the social effects of magic on everyday life.

A sweeping, literary account of cancer treated as a historical subject: how clinicians, researchers, and institutions have identified, named, studied, and attempted to treat cancer over decades and centuries.

A young woman with a disputed claim to a ruling house is summoned to the capital to contend for a throne and to answer dangerous questions about her lineage.

An investigative nonfiction account tracing the life of Henrietta Lacks and the origin of the HeLa cell line, focusing on how her cells were taken, used in scientific research, and the ethical, racial, and personal consequences for her family.

Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration in the United States operates as a contemporary racial caste system—what she terms the "New Jim Crow."

An author convalescing with a chronic illness observes and cares for a wild snail that becomes a daily companion. The book records close, patient attention to the snail’s behavior and anatomy while using that relationship to reflect on bodily experience, time, and recovery.

A narrative history of the Great Migration, tracing the movement of Black Americans out of the U.S. South into northern, midwestern, and western cities across much of the twentieth century.

A tightly focused, first-person account centered on a Black working-class family in Mississippi as they prepare for and endure Hurricane Katrina.

A retelling of the Trojan War era centered on the relationship between a famed Greek warrior and the person who witnesses and loves him. The account compresses mythic events into a personal, emotionally charged narrative that follows their bond through training, war, and the pressures of fame and fate.

A first-person memoir tracing the author's journey from an abusive childhood through competitive swimming, substance use, and sexual exploration toward eventual stability in adult life.

A wandering, nocturnal circus full of impossible attractions serves as the stage for a concealed magical contest whose rules and contestants are revealed in fragments.

A Stranger in Olondria follows an outsider in a foreign city whose interest in local books, monks, and oral traditions pulls them into investigations of stories, memory, and uncanny occurrences.

A married couple's crisis becomes the novel's engine when the wife disappears and attention turns to the husband as a suspect.